Search for dissertations about: "Réconciliation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 77 swedish dissertations containing the word Réconciliation.

2. 1. Rethinking Reconciliation : Concepts, Methods, and an Empirical Study of Truth Telling and Psychological Health in Rwanda

   Author : Karen Brounéus; Peter Wallensteen; Erik Melander; Ervin Staub; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Peace and conflict research; reconciliation; truth commissions; truth telling; peacebuilding; internal conflict; security; witnessing; psychological health; Rwanda; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This dissertation combines psychology with peace and conflict research in a cross-disciplinary approach to reconciliation processes after intrastate armed conflict. Two overarching contributions are made to the field of reconciliation research. The first is conceptual and methodological. READ MORE

4. 2. Roads to Repair : Extraordinary and Everyday Pathways to Reconciliation after Civil War

   Author : Kate Lonergan; Roland Kostić; Kristine Höglund; Brandon Hamber; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil war; reconciliation; everyday reconciliation; everyday practices; social repair; Sri Lanka; Sierra Leone; intergroup contact; field experiment; truth commission; everyday indicators; transitional justice; rebel governance; wartime order; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : How do societies emerging from civil war envision micro-level reconciliation across enduring relational divisions and conflict-related harms? This is a pressing question after civil war, which reshapes social processes and further entrenches societal divisions. Previous research seeks to address this question by documenting grassroots perspectives on reconciliation and highlighting the ways in which macro- and micro-level visions differ. READ MORE

5. 3. Grass-roots reconciliation in South Africa

   Author : Anna-Karin Evaldsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reconciliation; South Africa; peacebuilding; intergroup contact; crime; violence; justice; poverty; inequality; discrimination;

   Abstract : Reconciliation between the parties in the aftermath of a violent conflict increases the possibility for sustainable peace. The aim of this thesis is to study reconciliation in South Africa with a focus on factors that facilitate or hamper reconciliation between black and white South Africans at grass-roots level. READ MORE

6. 4. Ambivalent Peace : External Peacebuilding, Threatened Identity and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   Author : Roland Kostic; Peter Wallensteen; Kjell Magnusson; Erik Melander; Susan Woodward; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Peace and conflict research; Peacebuilding; Nation-Building; State-Building; Identity; Societal Security Dilemma; Reconciliation; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research; freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This study expands the enquiry of external efforts to build peace after an ethnic war by investigating the effects these efforts may have on societal security and reconciliation among groups in a host society. To achieve this, a theoretical framework, combining theories on the character of external peacebuilding, and theories on societal security and reconciliation, was devised and applied to the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. READ MORE

7. 5. Analyzing Competitive Victimhood : Narratives of recognition and nonrecognition in the pursuit of reconciliation

   Author : Cagla Demirel; Simon Birnbaum; Fredrika Björklund; Johanna Mannergren Selimovic; Camilla Orjuela; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; competitive victimhood; post-conflict; reconciliation; ethnonational relations; narratives; competitive victimhood; postkonflikt; försoning; etnonationella relationer; narrativ; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation analyzes the narrative manifestation of competitive victimhood and its variations within reconciliation processes. Competitive victimhood (CV) emerges when opposing groups assert themselves to be the sole or primary victims of conflict or use their historical suffering to rationalize ingroup transgressions. READ MORE